I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less civil, and less thoughtful in recent years. Is that intuition correct, or...
Another great question from one of my Advanced classes as posed by Yelda: "I love box-and-whisker plots, but how do I export that data out? I want to grab the median, the quartiles, everything and put it into a crosstab." Awesome question! Let’s find a solution.bo Box Plots As...
At the start of this Deep Dive series, I stated that there were four standard use cases for parameters: filters, bins, reference lines and calculated fields. What about other areas, such as table calculations? Why can’t we use parameters there? The answer is: You can! You just...
I first became aware of Mark from his Tableau beta program participation. He was putting out excellent performance test metrics out on the Tableau beta website that were very helpful. I’ve had the good fortune to get to know mark better through the Tableau Conference,...
From my Melbourne Advanced class last week, I received the following question from one of my students, Arpan: "Can I manually set the colors of a stepped gradient?" The quick answer is: Yes, you can! Let’s learn more about this question and potential use cases for the solution. Stepped...
Have you ever needed an easy source of coal usage data over time? Maybe your project calls for electricity consumption or petroleum prices. Luckily, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has all of the energy metrics you could imagine! Collecting this data isn’t terribly complicated, but it can be time...
Tableau 10 includes new functions in the JavaScript API that give access to underlying data and summary data in a worksheet. As of this version, you can build dynamic web interfaces or custom visualizations using data from Tableau. I have previously showed how to integrate...
In the next article of our Deep Dive on Parameters, we will examine reference lines. Remember, there are a lot of ways to add reference lines to your view: the Analysis drop-down menu, the Analytics pane or right-clicking on the measures axis. Also, reference line...
In the next article of our Deep Dive on parameters, we’ll explore how we can use parameters to allow our report users to choose the size of their bins within a histogram. Histogram Review We talked about the histogram in our Tableau Essentials series here. It’s a...
Have you ever needed an easy source of GDP data over time? Maybe your project calls for unemployment rates or federal debt. Luckily, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has a treasure trove of interesting economic metrics like these in a database named “FRED”. Collecting this...
Above: Scenes from the infamous photo booth at last year's conference. It’s that time of year again: The 2016 Tableau Conference on Tour is headed to London! If you’ve been to a Tableau Conference of any sort in the past, you know they’re amazing. If you have...
In the last two articles of this parameters Deep Dive, we’ve learned how to use parameters with filters and within calculated fields. Now, let’s combine these skills and use a parameter to filter across disparate data sources. Quick Review Remember, filters are different than parameters. Filters are...
Every day, we are contacted by individuals that are aware of the great potential in Tableau but have no background in data analytics. They are keenly interested in learning Tableau as quickly as possible. As a certified Tableau training partner and 2015 Tableau Training Partner of the...
Are you ready to be inspired to do more with your analytics practice? We’ve got just the event for you: the aptly named Alteryx Inspire 2016! This conference is the biggest Alteryx event of the year, packed with all sorts of keynotes and breakout sessions...
It’s worth exploring the data you use with Tableau a bit further. In our last article of the Driver’s Ed series, we talked about adding data sources to your Tableau team. The business side sources the data, and the IT side incorporates and manages it....
When you combine parameters with calculated fields, you’re unlocking the potential of some powerful stuff. Obviously, no matter how deep our deep dive could go, there’s no way I could show you everything that is possible. So, we’ll use a couple of examples to get...
In a previous blog post, I mapped America’s Deadliest Shootings based on a timeline put together by the "Los Angeles Times." A topic not often discussed is the order of elements when laying out floating containers on your dashboard and how this can ultimately impact...
Are you a Tableau Desktop user who is new to Tableau Server? Do you find yourself confounded by all of the thingamajigs and whatsits, and just want someone to tell you what you need to focus on? If so, then you want this post. In this...
During my email scan this morning, I noticed an interesting post from Statistica regarding women in board leadership roles by country. Norway had the highest percentage of women board members (39%) while the United States (12%) was ranked was well down the list at #8. I decided...
We all know that we can create some pretty cool maps in Tableau using fields like City, State and ZIP Code; however, Tableau cannot natively map street addresses. In order to plot specific addresses, we’ll need to use latitude and longitude coordinates. Through the use...
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